[Nasrudith]

I think you are still being sold even if you pay. Nothing really stops that. Even if they give away or even pay the bigger providers they are ultimately selling a white list. Since if they just accepted whoever gave them money with zero policing of abuse, even a warning and take down system for spam then nobody would accept their whitelist as it eventually becomes a blacklist of "the one spammers use" and their business model essentially becomes a scam.